First off a big thank you to all the authors who worked with me or helped spread the word about my business, I really appreciate it! Thank you to all the bloggers, reviewers and readers who participated in one of my tours or review opportunities, I wouldn’t be able to do this without you!

And a big thanks to my awesome banner designer Michelle from Limabean Design! The idea of making my own graphics scares the hell out of me, I am so glad to have found you and that you agreed to be my banner designer. I love the banners you design for my tours and you are an awesome friend as well.

To celebrate Lola’s Blog Tours third anniversary I decided to do some giveaways. There are 3 separate giveaways. There is a giveaway for readers to win one of the two books I am giving away from the bookdepository (winners choice). And I have two authors only giveaways going on. One for a review opportunity organized by Lola’s Blog Tours and one for a teaser image or sales graphic designed by Limabean Designs. You can scroll down to see the giveaways.

What happened this year

Compared to other years this has been a year with very little big changes. I found my direction with this business and mostly continued with that. I decided to make my cover reveals free last year and for now I have decided to keep them that way. I organized more tours and review opportunities. Mostly I added some small things here and there, changes a few things in my policies and how I handle things, but mostly minor things.
The biggest change in this last year is that got a new banner designer, Limabean Designs. And I am really happy with the change. Michelle knows the blogging community as she’s a blogger as well and I really enjoy working with her.
Another change this year is that last month I switched to mailerlite for my tour e-mails and so far I am really happy I made that change. I also set-up a newsletter for authors, I will send out an e-mail about once a month with tips, information, sales/ discounts about my services and other information that might be handy for authors. You can sign-up for my newsletter for authors here.
And on my blog Lola’s Reviews I started doing a series of posts aimed at authors, called Lola’s Advice since January this year. You can see the whole list of Lola’s Advice posts so far here.

Stats

I always like looking back each year to see how much events I have organized so far. So I included some stats below. These are the total amount of tours I’ve organized in the past three years.

Book Giveaway

First I have a giveaway for everyone! Readers, bloggers, authors etc are all allowed to enter this giveaway. Two winners will each win a book of their choice from The Bookdepository up to 10$. Prize will be given away by Lola’s Blog Tours.

The rules:
Read my giveaway policy here. Extra rules for this giveaway are below:
– You need to live in a country where the Bookdepository ships to

Review Opportunity Giveaway

For the authors I have an author only giveaway. You can win a free review opportunity organized by Lola’s Blog Tours! Prize will be given away by Lola’s Blog Tours.

The rules:
Read my giveaway policy here. Extra rules for this giveaway are below
– You need to be an author to be eligible to enter
– If the winner doesn’t want a review opportunity you can exchange it for a 50$ discount on a tour (blog tour, book blitz or book blitz deluxe) organized by Lola’s Blog Tours
– If you win you need to claim your review opportunity or discounted tour within a year. So this means you need to have a book already published or one that will be published within this time.

Free Teaser image or Sales Graphic Giveaway

And for the second authors only giveaway, my awesome banner designer will design a free teaser image or sales graphic for one author. One author will win this prize and they can decide if they want a teaser image or a sales graphic designed. Prize will be given away by Limabean Designs.

The rules:
Read my giveaway policy here. Extra rules for this giveaway are below
– You need to be an author to be eligible to enter
– If you win you need to claim your free teaser image or sales graphic within a year. So this means you need to have a book already published or one that will be published within this time.a Rafflecopter giveaway